| Corner, George | <person> U.S. Anatomist, 1889-1981. See: Corner-Allen test, Corner-Allen unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Corner-Allen test | A test for progestational activity; adult female rabbits are mated during estrus and spayed 18 hours later; the test substance is injected subcutaneously on 5 successive days; the minimal amount required to produce complete progestational proliferation of the endometrium is taken as a unit, equivalent to 1.25 mg of progesterone. (05 Mar 2000) |
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| Corner-Allen unit | A unit of progestational activity, measured in rabbits; the minimum dose which, divided into five equal daily portions, produces on the sixth day the uterine changes characteristic of the eighth day of normal pregnancy; the unit has about the same potency as the international unit. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner, Edred | <person> English surgeon, 1873-1950. See: Corner's tampon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Corner's tampon | A plug of omentum stuffed into a wound of the stomach or intestine as a temporary tampon. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bachman, George | <person> U.S. Parasitologist, *1890. See: Bachman-Pettit test. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Bachmann, Jean George | <person> U.S. Physiologist, 1877-1959. See: Bachmann's bundle. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Baehr, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1887-1978. See: Baehr-Lohlein lesion. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Beadle, George | <person> An American geneticist who won the Nobel Prize in 1958 with Edward Tatum for showing that genes are responsible for controlling the production of enzymes. Lived: 1903-1991. (13 Nov 1997) |
| Blumer, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1858-1940. See: Blumer's shelf. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Brewer, George | <person> U.S. Surgeon, 1861-1939. See: Brewer's infarcts. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Budd, George | <person> English physician, 1808-1882. See: Budd's cirrhosis, Budd's syndrome, Budd-Chiari syndrome. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Caldwell, George | <person> U.S. Physician, 1834-1918. See: Caldwell-Luc operation. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Palade, George | <person> Roumanian-U.S. Cell biologist and Nobel laureate, *1912. See: Palade granule, Weibel-Palade bodies. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Rainey, George | <person> English anatomist, 1801-1884. See: Rainey's corpuscles. (05 Mar 2000) |
| Papanicolaou, George | <person> Greek-U.S. Physician, anatomist, and cytologist, 1883-1962. See: Pap smear, Pap test, Papanicolaou examination, Papanicolaou smear, Papanicolaou smear test, Papanicolaou stain. (05 Mar 2000) |